We recently finished conducting our annual Application Performance Management survey. Over 250 IT professionals participated, and they shared insights such as:
– Many Ops and Dev teams are anticipating growth in their applications by 20% or more
– Over 50% are planning to move to the cloud, and are architecting brand-new applications to be cloud-ready
– Most teams are using log files to monitor application performance, rather than an Application Performance Management (APM) tool.

We’ll release the full report soon, but here’s an infographic that summarizes some of the main findings:

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What I found personally surprising was the heavy reliance on log files. When you’re troubleshooting distributed architectures, time is of the essence–and there’s no way to cut your MTTR down when you’re relying on log files to identify root cause.

In fact, there’s only one guy who ever made using a log file look cool: